The news isn’t good. Rates of infection for various STD’s (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) is on the rise, and a lot more in the Gay Community than in the Straight World. And while the health implications, alone, are worrisome, there is also the political backlash that these rising rates could cause. It isn’t like we are accepted by our straight brethren as it is, and remember back in the 70’s when AIDS was running wild, all the talk by Politicians and so called friends, about Quarantine for Gays?
(WebMD) A raging epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases in gay/bisexual men drove U.S. syphilis rates up 12 percent in 2007 – the seventh-consecutive year of syphilis increases. (source)
With this being an election year, and all that is at stake, I can just see the Religious Right frothing at the mouth. To keep the White House, to regain control of Congress, this is an issue that will have them dancing for glee. It will give every Homophobic Republican a weapon to use, against the ‘Gay Friendly Democrats‘ and we all know how that will turn out.
While personally, I do not believe the Democrats are any more friendlier to Gays, or Gay Rights, than the more vocal bigoted Republicans, this could turn into another one of those ‘wedge‘ issues that Karl Rove loved so much. And guess who is helping John McCain in his bid for the White House?
And in some way, I think we have ourselves to blame for being so vulnerable to these attacks as well. While the ‘straight‘ industry is mostly condom less, you can bet your sweet ass that they will hold up every bareback video ever made, and they will be Gay Porn, not your average Straight Sex Videos. They will point to us, and call us ‘perverts‘ and ‘dangerous‘ because we do not do what we should, to mitigate the risks.
Yes, there are some studios, like Hot Desert Knights that actually do something. They test their models, not just for HIV but for STDs as well. The issue is that they are not in the majority. They are a minority among increasing Bareback Gay Porn Studios, that simply push out the stuff, irrespective of the risks to models. In addition, a lot of this comes from Eastern Europe, where there isn’t a clinic on every corner.
But the studios, no matter which one it is, is simply filling a demand, that we, the consumer are creating. If we didn’t have this yearning for bareback sex, you can bet your bottom dollar that there wouldn’t be such a proliferation of bareback sex videos. So to satisfy our desire to feel the cock, to not use Condoms, and to watch others enjoying anal sex without Condoms, we are giving the Religious Right and easy target.
Gay Bashings will continue, and the Mathew Shepard Bill will continue to languish around the halls of Congress, because no President, Republican or Democrat, will sign into law a bill that protects Gays, as the Republicans will portray us. They won’t mention, or hold up the fact that 1 in 3 cases of Gonorrhea are missed because of improper testing, but will harp on how the increase is mainly in Gays and Bisexual Males engaging in male to male sex. That will be their mantra, their Holy Grail, as they try to frighten the silent majority into once more backing them.
Do you really think Hilary Clinton will defend us? Barack Obama?
Bill Clinton sure didn’t during his 2 terms in office. If he had, maybe there wouldn’t be such a rise in STD’s either. Instead of doing what his Surgeon General recommended, he fired her instead.
This is the reality of Politics interfering with Health. This is why there is nothing but Abstinence Only Sex Education, and it is also why diseases like Syphilis are up across the board. Condoms are not fashionable, safe sex is not in vogue, but not because people are selfish, but because NO ONE KNOWS THE TRUTH. Education is about teaching, about learning, and when you deny people all sides of an issue, they aren’t being educated, but programmed.
We have programmed our society to believe that sex is somehow bad, that unless it is between a married couple. that is one male & one female, it is evil, is a sin. And like sheep, we blindly accept it, because we have allowed narrow minded bigots like George Bush and others, to brain wash us, to scare us into believing them.
Now we are reaping the results of that blind following.
